My chef Simon has not been well, so I have been cooking most of the week, and the tip of the week for any budding chefs or if you are thinking about buying a Christmas present for your significant other half well what better than a 'Rothenberger x2 Fire Gas Torch', its an awesome piece of equipment, one click automatically jets a three inch searing hot flame of Map/Propane mix at what ever you want, used by professional gas fitters to weld pipes, its the perfect kitchen accessory!  Don’t bother with those fiddly little gas thing designed for domestic kitchens or even your regular gas torch, the Rothenberger is the business.  It can finish off a pie tops, do crème brulees  for fun or fry an  egg.

Well our wedding couple returned from Seville and dropped in to say thank you to everyone and to collect the wedding presents that they had left the week before.

The weekend saw yet more bikes, but not bikers as you know them, we are not a ‘hells angel’ hang out or a pie, mash and mug of tea shop, no the chaps and occasionally ladies are all of a certain age mostly professional and on the long march between fifty and seventy all have expensive bikes, BMW 1200cc off road/ on road seems a particular favourite and they love good food and wine and come back time and time again.  I used to call my friend's Porsche Boxster that he acquired when he was sixty his 'menoporsche', its seems to me that maybe fast cars have been replaced by fast bikes for men approaching a certain age.    

Next week I plan to try and get ahead of the planning game we are trying to open up the car park onto the A470 and rebrand the hotel to attract more restaurant customers, that and make one of our conference rooms into a visitor centre to again try and attract more ‘foot fall’ into the hotel but its just taking so long, so I am hanging up my ‘pinny’ and getting down to some serious office work before we take a short break and get ready for Christmas.